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Mumbai Bus Operator To Test India’s National Transit Card

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India’s One Nation One Card will be test-piloted with Mumbai bus operator BEST in November, NFCWorld reported on Tuesday (Aug. The national transit card system uses a bank-issued card that will run on India’s RuPay payments network, the news outlet said. Bagde said the central government will foot the bill for the Mumbai pilot project.

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Hainan Golden Raises $141M In Funding Round Led By Tencent

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Founded that same year as a subsidiary of Tencent, Hainan Golden provides solutions to businesses — including catering, hospitality, retail and property management, with clients such as Didi Chuxing, China Unicom, China Telecom, China Mobile and FedEx. billion in 2022. billion.

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American Apparel And Postmates Pair Up

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While the eCommerce giant has managed to narrow this window to one or two days, an unlikely brand is saying that it should take no longer than an hour. ” While Luedorf and American Apparel might be hitting the express delivery point hard, it only applies to a subset of 50 products the retailer is dubbing as “basics.”

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Alexa’s Global Ambitions

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When Alexa debuted in those nations, users were able to converse with Alexa in their native language — and developers were given local language editions of the Alexa Skills Kit and Alexa Voice Service to program in. First, nations like Brazil, France, Italy, Spain, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand did not make the cut for holiday 2017.

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Singtel Adds Payment Options To Dash; Metro Bank Upgrades Mobile App

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In addition, PUC Berhad is teaming up with Revenue Group Berhad for online-to-offline (O2O) payments in Malaysia , and the United Kingdom’s Metro Bank is upgrading its mobile app to bring mobile payments to over 38 nations. It also claims to have Singapore’s first non-bank wallet on Apple’s payments system.

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How Cafes Created The Momentum That Made Oat Milk 

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metro for the last two years – the alternative milk of the moment is oat. It created that discovery experience for consumers,” said Mike Messersmith, Oatly’s general manager. Apart from literally any variety of nut, one can also pick up a carton of hemp, pea, quinoa or coconut milk at their local health food startup.

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Disrupting The Security Deposit With Insurance

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metros that time can extend to a decade and beyond. On average apartment rent rates have gone up about 36 percent in the last decade according to retail data firm Yardi Matrix , and in particularly desirable marketplaces like Denver, Austin and Seattle rents have gone up by more than 70 percent.

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